South Boston Waterfront

Your Guide

This is where the future is coming fast: A revitalized urban waterfront is coming together rapidly, capturing vital water-related uses and garnering a large share of the city’s developing innovation economy.

Surviving assets include the Northern Avenue Bridge, Boston’s Fish Pier, the World Trade Center, drydocks and shipping piers, and the Boston Design Center. And the newer catalysts: the Institute for Contemporary Art, the Federal Courthouse, and Liberty Wharf’s booming restaurants.

All this is connected with the city’s mandated harborwalk, which requires that developers and institutions provide public access along the entire coastal edge.

Bird's Eye View of Seaport Boulevard

Within the next decade, this street will be the visual center of the new Seaport Square, with shops, residential and commercial development, movie theaters, restaurants, and squares framing the city’s newest urban boulevard. Several of Boston’s 34 Harbor Islands are visible beyond the waterfront. Our Lady of Good Voyage chapel, seen in the foreground, will soon be relocated within a new structure.

Image: Hillary Archer

Boston Fish Pier

The Boston Fish Pier opened in 1915 and has remained in continual use by owners of Boston's fishing fleets for berthing, unloading, and processing. The No Name Restaurant has operated here since 1917.